The marine mammal — an infrequent visitor to the shores of the Emerald Isle — was spotted in the Waterford Estuary on the ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

A large sperm whale was spotted near Arthurstown, Co Wexford on Tuesday close to the Waterford Estuary. Locals had been ...

HEARTSTOPPING footage shows the moment two giant whales move in to protect a diver from a bloodthirsty shark. Benoît Girodeau ...

Interestingly, a giant sperm whale needs to eat 2,000 pounds a day, but its preference isn’t sharks — it prefers giant squid.

Sperm whales are highly social creatures that roam the world’s oceans together, diving deep in search of giant squid, their favorite food. As they swim and hunt, these massive marine mammals ...

Most other known remains of giant squid are fragments washed up on beaches or found in the stomach contents of sperm whales. When the Museum specimen was accidentally caught by a fishing trawler it ...

On Monday, BDMLR was called a report of a sperm whale grounded near the shore of ... Its diet is largely made up of squid. The creatures have a life expectancy roughly equivalent to a human ...

The eyes of a giant squid are the size of dinner plates and eyes up to 35cm in diameter have been reported. It’s thought they evolved to spot large predators, such as sperm whales. They do not ...

Sperm whales dive up to 3,000 feet (900 m) below the ocean's surface to hunt for giant squid and other deep-sea prey. Some toothed whales use only their teeth to capture and grab prey and swallow ...